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Lesson Plan
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Understanding and Using Red And Black Words

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this understanding and using red and black words worksheet, students view a "Macmillan Dictionary" and observe all the different red and black words found in the dictionary. Students answer twenty-five questions about the colored words.
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Worksheet
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Use a Dictionary to Check Spelling

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dictionary usage worksheet, learners use a sample dictionary page to correct the misspellings of underlined words in sentences. Students write three answers.
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Worksheet
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Mixed Up Dictionary

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts instructional activity, students locate inaccuracies in a sorted list. Students study a dictionary page with 40 words and the guide words, and identify the words which do not belong.
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Worksheet
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Dictionary Practice 2- Test Your Vocabulary Skills

For Students 5th - 6th
In this dictionary vocabulary learning exercise, learners locate the 9 listed words in the dictionary. They write a definition for the word, and write a notation of the page number where the word was found. Words include help, honesty,...
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Lesson Plan
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My Spelling Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Develop study skills and improve spelling at the same time. Every time I teach this mnemonic device, the kids thank me. It makes memorizing more manageable, and fun. To remember how to spell difficult words, make up a sentence using the...
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Organizer
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Reading Study Guide: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

For Students 8th - 11th
Meant for use with Maya Angelou's first autobiographical volume I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the materials here are designed for a homeschool setting, but they'd suit any classroom or text. Graphic organizers, chapter summary guides,...
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Worksheet
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Using a Dictionary - Comparing Words

For Students 6th - 9th
Equipped with a dictionary and a purpose, students test the meanings of four word pairs, determining if they are synonyms, antonyms, rhymes, or several other word relationships. Students can practice their dictionary skills and their...
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Lesson Plan
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Strengthening Your Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A challenging worksheet is here for your learners of language arts. In it, they must find words that convey a more powerful, or more descriptive meaning than the guide word at the top of the list. There are 12 guide words, and nine more...
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Worksheet
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Using a Dictionary

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students improve spelling and alphabetizing skills. Kids analyze 25 incorrectly spelled words and correct them. Students write the dictionary meanings for 12 words and find words pertaining to 5 subject...
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Worksheet
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Dictionary Skills Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - 6th
This is a one-page worksheet in which a student uses a worksheet to find the meanings of more difficult English words which have been used in a contextual sentence.
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Handout
Amazon Web Services

Idiom Dictionary

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Examining idioms is a peace of cake when using this graphic organizer! Here, grammarians identify an idiom and use it in a sentence. Then they investigate its literal meaning versus its figurative meaning, and accompany each one with a...
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Worksheet
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Dictionary Word Sort

For Students 6th - 7th
In this dictionary word sort learning exercise, students play a game identifying where words in the dictionary would be. Students use different cards and identify where a certain word would be on the page.
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Worksheet
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Homophones

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Pare, pair, or pear? Learners explore homophones with this dictionary skills instructional activity. They look up definitions to five sets of homophones to see how words can sound the same but have completely different meanings. There...
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Worksheet
T. Smith Publishing

Space Vocabulary Dictionary Skills

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Show your class how to use a dictionary and teach class members vocabulary related to space travel along the way. Pupils must place vocabulary words that pertain to space travel between the correct dictionary guide words. Next,...
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Worksheet
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Picture Dictionary

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students test their vocabulary skills by answering the questions using a picture dictionary. Students answer 20 questions.
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Lesson Plan
Education World

Democratic to Detail: Guide Words

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this dictionary skills practice worksheet, young scholars examine 20 words and use the guide words to determine whether each word would be on the same page, before the page, or after the page. Students also put the words in...
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Worksheet
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Research and Study Skills: Dictionary/Glossary

For Students 5th - 7th
What is the difference between a dictionary and a glossary? After looking at series of dictionary and glossary entries (included on the worksheet itself), learners are asked to explain the differences between these two reference...
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Writing
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Using the Internet - Art and Design

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
An interesting resource that might work best in an upper level art course, this handout provides a list of nine websites where young artists can read and study about all forms of art. These online resources range from a dictionary of...
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Interactive
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 9 - Exercise 5a

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 8 - Exercise 4b

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The fourth standard for reading literature in the Common Core calls for young readers to be able to determine the figurative and connotative meanings of words and phrases. Use this resource, a continuation of a series of Common Core...
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Worksheet
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Using a Dictionary - Prefixes

For Students 6th - 9th
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to find the answers to the 5 questions on the page. Each question pertains to prefixes.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using a Dictionary - Vocabulary

For Students 5th - 7th
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to help them answer the 5 multiple choice questions on the page.
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Worksheet
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Using a Dictionary - Prefixes

For Students 4th - 6th
Help your students add variety to their vocabulary with this dictionary activity, which includes five questions about prefixes (ir, pre, re, sub, post). Students will not only work with their dictionary reference skills, but learn the...